Abstract: Manual inspection management system for railway permanent way equipment was researched and developed by China Railway Nanchang Group Co. Ltd. and Beijing Jiaotong University in order to meet high - speed and heavy haul tendency of China's railway and solve the problems of current manual inspection of railway permanent way equipment. According to the business requirements of the manual inspection, the functional requirements analysis and overall architecture design of the system were carried out in detail. Guided by current and future field equipment management requirements, the optimization of data acquisition mode was discussed. On the basis of this research,this paper developed the B/S architecture based management system by using Oracle 12C database, C # .Net, JQuery,JavaScript and other tools. The system was based on equipment ledger data and maintenance data, involved three levels of users, such as works section, workshop and work area. It could effectively simplify the way of collecting data for manual inspection, instead of manual work to accomplish repetitive tasks such as problem determination, closed loop management and equipment quality assessment, so as to provide necessary tool support for continuous optimization of manual inspection business and upgrade railway permanent way management level. This paper elaborated the system from 3 aspects: system design, key technology and function implementation.